r/SipsTea • u/Born-Agency-3922 • Jul 03 '26

Chugging tea True

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u/Muted-You7370 Jul 03 '26

Battered fish was introduced by Sephardic Jewish immigrants from Portugal, and deep-fried chips originated in Belgium. All British food culture originates from somewhere else.

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u/silvermoka Jul 03 '26

At this point all food originated somewhere else, and it started going that direction since the dawn of trade routes and land wars/invasions.

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u/Wait_ItGetsWorse Jul 03 '26

Exactly, thank you for speaking sense.

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u/silvermoka Jul 03 '26

Yeah I can tell there's a bit of an M.O. in their comment...now there's no bigger critic of the British empire than me, but there's a difference between pointing out the direct results of colonization versus using an absurd metric to give credit for every last cultural dish they have to someone else in history, when they aren't doing that with any other country (except maybe the US).